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YANG MING PATTERN
Among the Six Conformations described in the Shang Han Lun, Yang Ming stands at the height of disease transformation. If Tai Yang represents the beginning of externally contracted illness, Yang Ming represents its consolidation, when the struggle between righteous qi and pathogenic influence has moved inward and gathered strength at the center. In the cosmology…
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Vernal Equinox 春分
In the northern hemisphere, today Thursday March 20th,2025 is the Vernal Equinox. Even though we won’t be able to see it, at exactly 5:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time the sun will be at an exact vertical angle to the equator. Over the next few months the sun will continue angling more and more towards the…
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The Energetics of the Torso
The San Jiao disseminates the Yuan Qi out of the Kidneys, and it is the San Jiao mechanism is that which creates the energetics associated with the front Mu and back Shu points.Although the San Jiao does not have form we can say that it is represented by the vortex that moves from ST11 (Qi…
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In Search of A Philosophical Medicine
This article is also available in its published form CJOM, Vol 11, No. 2 Spring 2000 (pdf) All medicine is philosophical in nature. Even modern medicine is based on our modern-day understanding of life as a biochemical, possibly mechanical, process. Chinese medicine also is based upon certain philosophical understanding cloaked in cultural terms appropriate to its time…